No graphics card is quiet enough without an aftermarket cooler except a passive one.

The heatsink on this card looks decent. If it's too loud you could remove only the fans with their shroud, not the entire heatsink, and put a quiet 120mm fan on top. That way you shouldn't have a problem with warranty, you can always reattach the shroud, plug the fan back in and no one can tell they ever came of.

TechpowerUp has great reviews but good question: how are they on noise measurement?

They use a Bruel & Kjaer sound meter which is the same brand SPCR used to use before the chamber was built.

I trust TechpowerUP's sound readings at 25 dBA and higher. Anything below 25 dBA and the readings get squashed together.

Any card that is under 27 dBA on their load test is quiet enough for some users but there are always those who consider anything above 20 dBA too loud.

The biggest downfall to TechPowerUp video card noise tests is that they don't show the quietest cards in all the reviews. Any non stock video card doesn't make the chart in anything other than its own review.

Considering how many pages of reviews there are on TechPowerUP it'd be easy to overlook a quieter video card that could compete or even beat the card you are looking at in the most recent review.

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The idle temperatures were high because I have two monitors so the card runs at higher clocks when idle (450/1350 instead of 150/250)

The load temperatures were roughly on par with several reviews.

P.S.: I should also add that my 640GB HDD (installed on the lowest HDD tray) was being heated up by the card to over 45º C! Now after a hour long gaming session it's at 39º C. So the stock cooler was really bad.

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